Alan Wake 2, Management developer Treatment has introduced that it has cancelled its multiplayer mission, codenamed Kestrel. The studio has revealed that it’s going to as an alternative be focusing extra on its present franchises. In keeping with the announcement, Kestrel had began improvement in November 2023, and was a reboot of earlier mission, Vanguard.
The cancellation of Kestrel is resulting in builders engaged on the title getting reassigned to different initiatives in Treatment. This additionally signifies that the studio is lowering its general recruitment efforts for the now-cancelled mission.
In an announcement, Treatment CEO Tero Virtala spoke in regards to the mission nonetheless being in its early conceptual levels, and mentioned that the choice to cancel Kestrel was made regardless of the title exhibiting early promise.
“Codename Kestrel confirmed early promise, however the mission was nonetheless in its early idea stage,” mentioned Virtala. “Our different initiatives have superior properly and are shifting to the following levels of improvement, and rising concentrate on them offers us with advantages. We will reallocate proficient Kestrel builders to those different sport initiatives, and lots of of our help capabilities get further concentrate on their operations.”
When it was initially introduced again in November, Kestrel was described by Treatment as that includes co-op multiplayer as a significant element. The final main launch by Treatment Leisure was single-player horror title Alan Wake 2, which is accessible on PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S.
